URBAN PAUSES:
ULLA ALLA, MERILIN KAUP,
MARI MÖLDRE & MARGUS TAMMIK
installation programme
URBAN PAUSES/ August 16-19
9 installations / different locations
The main theme of the 2023 festival is "Urban Pauses" that focuses on the wastelands and voids of Tartu. These are transitional and untamed places, which at first glance seem to lack function, but nevertheless are valuable as they are. Together with artists we explore the impact and meaning of urban pauses in the city space. Installations inspired by urban pauses are created by nine artists or groups from Estonia and abroad, three of them are young architects that were selected through an open competition.
photo: Mari Volens
ULLA ALLA, MERILIN KAUP, MARI MÖLDRE & MARGUS TAMMIK (EE)
"What's the point of grass?"
August 16-19 at 12-20
Near Erminurme bus stop (Raadi)
You can hardly find another form of nature that provokes a conflict of worldviews on such a powerful scale as grass. In fact, grass is one big work of fiction, an artificial species with a demand for continuity that is neverending.
Grass as a carpet is a superficial solution, under which we have lazily swept fears of what we perceive as clutter and chaos. Disinterest in understanding nature’s chorus of singularity, the order of which is more complicated than we could imagine.
Real wastelands are not forgotten and overgrown lots, but carefully trimmed and presentable lawns in gardens.
Our spacial (non)interventions generally use materials found at the location, which on this occasion turned out to be the forgotten grass covering the caponiers.
Ulla Alla, Merilin Kaup, Mari Möldre and Margus Tammik are architects whose practice involves organising various events and projects, exhibitions and summer schools. They value hands-on activities, such as tinkering, fixing, cleaning, building and demolishing – or any other direct act of creating space. Focusing on the already existing, they use the materials at hand. Together with Triin Reidla they are the founders of VARES - Valga Architecture Residency.